IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

The E-Newsletter no. 3 of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project Living Danube Limes (DTP359) has been published. The Newsletter covers the project events in the second half of 2021.

The sixth edition of International Conference on Structural Health Assessment of Timber Structures (SHATIS’22) will be held from 7th to 9th September in Prague, Czechia.

IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

The Council of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences invites applications for the position of Director of the Institute.

You are invited to attend the Final International Conference of the STRENCH project (programme Interreg Central Europe) on 24th February 2022 from 2:30 p.m. The conference will be held online via Zoom.

Join the 2022 International Winter School in cultural property protection. It will be held online via Zoom from 7th to 11th February, 2022. More information and registration at the Danube University Krems website here.

At the end of the year, we bring you the second issue of the ITAM newsletter, which summarizes research and events at the Institute of the past half-year.

Newsletter 2/2021 - English version

Newsletter 2/2021 - Czech version

Newsletter no. 3 of the Interreg Central Europe project STRENCH (CE1665) has been published. The Newsletter covers the period from May to October 2021.

From July 15th until the end of October 2022 an adventurous journey awaits those brave enough to join the crew of the “Danuvina Alacris”, a modern reconstruction of a “Lusoria” type roman ship which once roamed the untaimed Danube River guarding the boundary between the roman empire and the uncivilized wasteland beyond the so called “barbaricum”.

The approximate daily distance is 40 km and the journey will take you along many historical sites and include access to associated events. With a full crew rotation every two weeks the roman Navy needs you!

We are pleased to invite you to an international conference Hidden Beneath the Surface: Archaeological Areas of Europe. Deadline for abstracts → 30 June 2021.

Starting Research Career Infrastructure Services in Heritage Science

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences operates specialised research infrastructure for heritage science and provides services for interdisciplinary research in the field. The STARCAIS programme offers infrastructure support to young researchers – Ph.D. students or post-docs - at the beginning of their career.

CONSErvation of 20th centrury concrete Cultural Heritage in urban changing environments

CONSECH20 is a research project that aims at developing effective approaches for conservation and protection of 20th cent. heritage concrete buildings against the ever-changing urban impacts, taking into account both technical and social aspects.

The website deals with historical production of burnt lime and related lime technologies, traditional craftsmanship of prossesing and utilization of lime in construction. The main objective is a thourough and complex knowledge of the above, a material-based research and a reconstruction of historical procedures. A common goal is to bring attention to the unique historical techniques, which used to be succesfully employed in the past, nowadays, however, are for the main part forgotten. The website is concieved as an open one, striving to gradually add new related information researched by a wide range of experts on archeology, construction materials, history of construction etc.

In the second half of 1990s, an increased attention was paid to the safeguarding of the built heritage and its integration into the life of contemporary society. The complexity of problems of cultural heritage called for modern interdisciplinary approach and this was started in a systematic way in 1995 by founding of a new department of the Institute - the Associated Research Centre for Historic Structures and Sites (ARCHISS) - joining together researchers from two institutes of the Academy of Sciences. The process continued, because of success in grant project competitions and now there are scientists involved in the research from other institutes and universities and two operating research units - one in Prague and one in another World Heritage City of Telč.